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aftergrass

aftergrass noun: the grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

Noun

aftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)

  1. (usually) The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
    • For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.1614, G[ervase] M[arkham], chapter VII, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Ordering of All Sorts...
    • This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still of a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.1820, William Wordsworth, “The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. Notes. Sonnet XVII.”, in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems. […], London: […] [Andrew and...

Synonyms of aftergrass

Forms of aftergrass

pluralaftergrasses

Origin of aftergrass

From after- + grass.

Questions about aftergrass

What does aftergrass mean?
Aftergrass means the grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
What part of speech is aftergrass?
Aftergrass is a noun.
What is the plural of aftergrass?
The plural of aftergrass is aftergrasses.

Words near aftergrass in the dictionary

  1. aftergame
  2. aftergames
  3. afterglow
  4. afterglows
  5. afterglowy
  6. aftergrass
  7. aftergrasses
  8. aftergrowth
  9. aftergrowths
  10. afterguard
  11. afterguards

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